# Global metrics
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Global metrics relate to general performance and information for AWS Elemental MediaLive.

## Active alerts
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The total number of alerts that are active.

**Details:**
+ Name: ActiveAlerts
+ Units: Count
+ Meaning of zero: There are no active alerts
+ Meaning of no datapoints: The channel isn’t running
+ Supported dimension sets: ChannelID, Pipeline
+ Recommended statistic: Max

  All the statistics are useful for this metric.